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On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 10:35:18 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2019-03-16 at 09:31 +0000, James Le Cuirot wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:23:00 +0100 |
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> > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > # Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> (15 Mar 2019) |
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> > > # Last reverse dependency of dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.5* (#656378). Current |
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> > > # version is outdated, maintainer is MIA and the new versions are |
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> > > # in distro-unfriendly AppImage format (#661740). |
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> > > # Removal in 30 days. Bug #677486. |
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> > > dev-util/staruml-bin |
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> > > =dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.5* |
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> > I don't care about staruml-bin but libgcrypt is one of those legacy |
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> > libraries that would be helpful to keep around for older proprietary |
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> > software that is not in the tree. In particular, it is used by |
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> > Half-Life 2 and Portal, not exactly obscure games. It is included in |
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> > the Steam runtime but we highly recommend against using that because it |
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> > causes many issues. |
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> I don't understand why would you want to run some proprietary native |
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> executables requiring obsolete libraries on your system when HL2 works |
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> perfectly via wine, and gets a nice performance boost via Gallium Nine. |
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Because native code works faster than API emulation via wine. |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |